EsquireCongressional Committees Thank God for the Mute Button During Tuesday's House Oversight Hearing Esquire - By Charles P. PierceChristi Grimm, the deputy inspector general at the Department of Health and Human Services who was replaced by the president* in May after her office produced a report that detailed shortages of personal-protective
EsquireAfrican-American News Bigotry Is Flying Its Black Flag in America Esquire - By Charles P. PierceIt was not a good holiday weekend for the Day of Jubilee that was declared by Chief Justice John Roberts in the majority opinion in Shelby County v. Holder. First, there was the bizarre video taken in
EsquireWetlands Louisiana's Marshlands Have Reached the Point of No Return Esquire - By Charles P. PierceOne of the most pervasive myths of American exceptionalism is that this country never will reach any Point Of No Return. There never will be a crisis beyond our abilities to think, or invent, or entrepreneur
EsquireNews This Is a Ruling to Be Celebrated and Enjoyed Esquire - By Charles P. PierceIn 1964, in his maiden speech to the U.S. Senate, Edward M. Kennedy enlisted himself and his career in the cause of civil rights. Our appeal to the American people is this: Seek a reign of justice in voting
EsquireNews Even a GOP Congressman Is Sick of Trump's Baseless Conspiracy Theories About Joe Scarborough Esquire - By Gabrielle BruneyDonald Trump has made a habit of disseminating conspiracy theories when he wants to direct attention away from his administration's failings—just look at the way he created "Obamagate" from thin air in
EsquireJeff Sessions Jeff Sessions Seems to Be a Little Bit Tired of Taking Trump's Abuse Esquire - By Gabrielle BruneyIt may feel like Bill Barr has been taking a paper shredder to the rule of law for ages, but it's only been about a year and a half since Jeff Sessions was serving as the nation's attorney general. And
EsquireNews The White House Showed Off Trump's Latest Donated Paycheck and Accidentally Revealed His Banking Info Esquire - By Gabrielle BruneyFour times a year, the White House holds a press conference to announce which government body will receive Trump's quarterly $100,000 paycheck, and unsurprisingly, the Department of Health and Human services
EsquireJoe Biden There Never Has Been a Holiday Weekend Quite Like This One Esquire - By Charles P. Pierce(Permanent Musical Accompaniment To The Last Post Of The Week From The Blog’s Favourite Living Canadian) I am trying to figure out how to create a beach in my living room. Where will I put the hot-dog
EsquireContact Tracing We Have to Start Regularly Testing People Who Aren't Sick Esquire - By Jack HolmesWe locked down our society because we didn't know where the virus was in our population. If you don't know where it is or how far it's spread, you can't fight it in any strategic way. So you shut it all
EsquireSocial Distancing Main Street in America: 62 Photos That Show How COVID-19 Changed the Look of Everyday Life Esquire - By Esquire EditorsA walk around the block, a trip to the grocery store, a socially distanced meetup in a neighbor’s driveway. The span of our physical world has gotten small these past few months—very freaking small. Yet
EsquireSan Francisco Bay Area We Do Not Know What Will Return Esquire - By Andrew Sean GreerI am the Block Captain for houses zero to fifty Webster Street, not far from my house in San Francisco. Our neighbor Dan invented a neighborhood organization during the first days of lockdown. I distribute
EsquireNews We'll Wake Up One Morning to Discover the President* Gave Louisiana Back to France Esquire - By Charles P. PierceThere is absolutely no other way to look at this story in The New York Times without seeing it as a boon to Vladimir Putin and Russia. It fulfills all the obvious prerequisites of the president*’s foreign-policy
EsquireGuns For Republicans, It's Just Pure Base Politics Now Esquire - By Charles P. PierceThe news from the Laboratories of Democracy never sleeps, and that is especially true in the bubbling beakers and flasks of the great state of Oklahoma, which, apparently, has had enough of messing around
EsquireSecond Amendment It Wouldn't Be an American Reopening Without an Unfortunate Exercise of Second Amendment Freedom Esquire - By Charles P. PierceIt wouldn’t be a truly American Reopening if it didn’t include some unfortunate exercises of Second Amendment freedoms. How could we ever Transition to Greatness without adding to the price we pay in for
EsquireWashington State An Illinois State Lawmaker Believes the Freedom to Infect Shall Not Be Infringed Esquire - By Charles P. PierceBeing our semi-regular weekly survey of what’s goin’ down in the several states where, as we know, the real work of governmentin’ gets done, and where, if your thought dreams could be seen, they’d probably
EsquireNews This Is One of the Dumbest Things in the History of the American Presidency Esquire - By Jack HolmesIt's not exactly news that the president doesn't read. This is an indictment of the country, and of the news media that covers him—which, despite all the yelling about Media Bias, actually cuts this guy
EsquireNews Trump Had No Idea What 'American Carnage' Really Looks Like Esquire - By Charles P. PierceWednesday’s blog is brought to you by the letter Q. First, in Oregon, a devotee of the QAnon lunacy won the Republican nomination to run against incumbent Senator Jeff Merkley. From the Washington Post.
EsquireHobby Lobby The Hobby Lobby Folks Have Risked the Wrath of the Annunaki Esquire - By Charles P. PierceAs a diversion in the shebeen from These Troubled Times, we are going to keep an eye on the continuing saga of the Green family, the Hobby Lobby plutocrats, and their Museum of the Bible, which has operated
EsquireMidland God Alone Knows What the President* Might Do If He Has to Wear a Mask Esquire - By Charles P. PierceOn Wednesday, our hotspot spotlight falls on Montgomery, Alabama, where frontline hospital workers are concerned—Still. Again.—about their facilities getting swamped. From the good folks at AL.com: Mayor
EsquireNews Of Course Republicans Handed Their Clown Show Over to Ron (Shreds of Freedom) Johnson Esquire - By Charles P. PierceThe party-line vote in the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee came amid vigorous objections from Democrats, who have accused their GOP counterparts of pushing Russian disinformation
Esquire Mike Pompeo Won't Comment on Personnel Matters. Except the Inspector General—That Guy Sucked! Esquire - By Charles P. PierceSecretary of State Mike Pompeo is not having a good month. There has been the walking of the dog, the firing of the inspector general, the alleged greasing of the arms sale to the Saudis, and, most recently,
EsquireNews Trump Is Threatening to Go Ukraine on Michigan Because They'll Let People Vote By Mail During a Pandemic Esquire - By Jack HolmesJust to recap a presidential abuse of power from 14 years—whoops, three months—ago, the president withheld vital aid to a United States ally, Ukraine, until the government of that country agreed to ratfuck
EsquireAbortion Norma McCorvey's Well-Financed Mock Apostasy Set Us on a Dangerous Path Esquire - By Charles P. PierceI can’t help but feel truly sad about this story. I feel sad for the principal in the story, and for the people affected by the great arc of mendacity that makes up the story, and for what it says about
EsquireRon DeSantis Ron DeSantis's Devotion to Trump Makes Brian Kemp Look Like Adam Schiff Esquire - By Charles P. PierceTuesday’s Hotspot Spotlight falls on Yuma, Arizona, where two of the primary at-risk groups in the pandemic—prison inmates and food-preparation workers—have come into somewhat brutal collision. From KJZZ:
EsquireClimate Change I'm Concerned the Administration* Is Too Busy Ignoring the Pandemic Science to Ignore the Climate Science Esquire - By Charles P. PierceI’m concerned that the administration* may be so busy ignoring the science behind handling the pandemic that ignoring the science behind the climate crisis may not have its full attention for a while.
EsquireAl-Qaeda OK But What If This Story Dropped in 2016? Esquire - By Jack HolmesIt doesn't do all that much good to ask the question these days. The comparison no longer carries much weight now that we've tumbled into the vortex. For all the talk of media bias against Donald Trump,
EsquireNews This Is the Last Hurrah for All the Fake Conspiracies Trump Has Fed the Rubes Since 2015 Esquire - By Charles P. PiercePolitico delivers the official word. Snipe hunting season is open in Washington. Some social distancing required. His proposal would permit the South Carolina Republican to demand testimony and documents
EsquireNeil Cavuto Even Fox News Had to Warn Viewers to Ignore Trump on Hydroxychloroquine Esquire - By Jack HolmesWe should begin any discussion of the shiny object du jour by stipulating that 90,000 Americans are dead, the United States has one of the worst responses to the novel coronavirus pandemic of any rich
EsquireAfrican-American News Barack Obama Scares These People to Death Esquire - By Charles P. PierceIn Australia, there is a lizard that, when confronted by danger, will puff out its frills, open its mouth wide, raise its tail, and stand on tip-toe to try to bluff its way out of being dinner. For the
